Speech #980147117

A swift reminder of this ongoing challenge is to look at how the Soviet empire has expanded its subjugation over the globe since 1918. From the nowCommunist bloc of Eastern Europe. to the bloody takeover in Afghanistan. to the outgrowth of leftist violence and exported revolution from Cuba and Nicaragua. to the well organized and direct funneling of arms and terrorism in the Mideast and throughout Africa by Sovietsponsored clients in Libya. Mozambique. and Angola. to the wave of refugees fleeing to the last islands of freedom in Southeast Asia. the spread of communism has the guard of freedom on the defensive. But the plight and the persecution of the Ukrainian people perhaps best typifies the onslaught of Communist Russias expanding empire. In the period between 1920 and 1939. the Ukrainian struggle for liberty from the alien Soviet forces brought out a series of illfated attempts toward statehood and a memory of persecution and oppression that was largely ignored or unbeknownst to the rest of the world.